Re-imagining Court Filing using GenAI through disciplined functional decomposition and critical thinking.

Founder of Cardamom Cosmos, a soon-to-be-released subscription-based service for Azure.More details soon!

Senior Engineer/Architect worked on Infrastructure team to ensure AWS-hosted Ease Applications (servicing 2+ million users) comprises the latest tools and technologies. Expanded back-end datastore experience to include Postgres, DynamoDb and Redis.Re-organized API’s around resources and implemented full set of CRM endpoints with Webhooks. Used the three-panel layout ReDoc and wrote most API docs (not otherwise auto-generated). Worked directly with our external API clients.Introduced Observability: Sentry, CloudWatch, Loggly, Grafana and OpenTelemetry contribute to this effort.Drove entire system upgrade from .NET 4 to .NET 6, my primary focus for 2+ years. This ‘ball of mud’ code required a novel planning approach for measuring class interdependencies to extract a core DLL: this multi-targeted DLL (.NET 4 and .NET 6) used compiler directives and dependency injection to allow separate applications that used this same infrastructure to be upgraded independently. Upgraded Forms to .NET 6: a poorly designed application, it has no tests nor clear way to test. Solved a complex bug arising from upgrading a key nuget package for .NET 6. A tool was created to map from old system to new system with no changes to any of the 10K C# Form class files. Since this nuget package upgrade affected each of the report types, a robust testing application was created to generate/compare 500,000+ reports for .NET 4 and .NET 6.Main application upgrade immediately followed. Established project timeline and worked with team leads and Product to ensure buy-in for their team testing. Development progressed on schedule, but newly hired CTO decided to postpone.Full SDLC: two-week sprints using JIRA, Visual Studio and GitHub Pull Requests, with TeamCity deploys to full suite of AWS-based environments. Unit/Integration tests auto-run for each PR/deploy.Studied Feature Management (LaunchDarkly) to improve release cadence.Led monthly Tech Talks, helping keep all developers in-sync.

Hired to help build out and lead a development team in the San Francisco office, temporarily moved to Tokyo to learn the existing system. While In Tokyo, also built out several new features, including an Elliptic (Anti-Money Laundering) system, and leveraged Azure and Domain Driven Design (DDD) to create two new production microservice-based systems, and acted as a primary architect for a third.The first microservice was built to implement a FIDO2 flow for 2FA: FIDO2 is a new and simple approach to user authentication. Although used for a specific purpose, the system itself was designed to allow future systems to leverage both 1FA and 2FA flows.The second microservice system is a Resource Token server for Cosmos DB, implemented to enforce the Principle of Least Privilege for any application that uses Cosmos DB. This system includes both the registering and storing of application info that will use these Resource Tokens, including an Angular user-interface, as well as the actual serving of these time-limited Resource Tokens.Each of these two systems were deployed in Azure to Azure Functions and Cosmos DB.The third microservice system is part of our AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) system and will help interact with an external service. This will leverage Azure Functions and Azure Service Bus (especially its Transactional capabilities) to implement this fault-tolerant and high-throughput system.Unfortunately, regulatory and market pressures have put the building of this San Francisco development team indefinitely on hold, so I moved on to my next position as a Sr. Engineer at Ease.com.

Fulfilled a civic duty by serving on a jury.

After 2 1/2 years of planning, I realized my dream to drive through the Himalayas of Northern India. Starting in Delhi, I rented a 4WD and drove 3000 miles through the remote terrain that holds ancient temples, remote villages and incredibly beautiful landscapes. I visited Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and Kashmir, as well as the Punjab region as I returned back to Delhi.

Senior Architect working remotely from San Francisco on the Smart Accounting project, a legacy WinForm/NetTiers application acting as a primary driver of business. A founding member of the Platform team, our small group worked to modernize the architecture/design using microservice architectures involving SOLID design principles and Domain Driven Design.Acted as Architect, Designer and hands-on Developer on four primary initiatives:• Azure Multi-Tenancy: working within an 8+ person team, successfully completed a nine-month long POC to leverage the Azure App Service Environment (ASE) and Azure SQL while teasing out microservices from the monolith, allowing multiple productions to be hosted in one ASE and (eventually) one Azure SQL database; collaborated with Microsoft and Lightstream architects; re-implemented IIS caching in Azure Cache (Redis Cache); created a new microservice and designed/implemented a novel approach to upgrading WinForm client within Azure; modified the Smart Accounting code base to implement this functionality; worked closely with DevOps to guide conversion to 12-factor app• Architected, designed, and initially implemented Reporting Microservice• Identity and Access Management (IAM): using OpenID Connect to connect with the Ping and apigee back-end; created two successful POC’s that exercised the ‘Authorization Code’ flow, including adapting the open source IdentityModel.OidcClient project for EP’s implementation of Ping/apigee; collaborated with other EP Architects on strategies to move Smart Accounting from their database-based identity to Ping/apigee.• Microservice Stack: contributed to project attempting to build a common set of libraries to accelerate microservice development and adoption; integrated stack in three separate microservices.Full SDLC with daily scrums and two-week sprints, including specifying Epics and individual stories.

Consulting Software Architect specializing in .NET and the full Microsoft stack, including Azure.Two original ideas were funded, a hybrid-Azure 'lift-and-shift' and an iPad app. Two other proposals were created, involving in-depth analysis of business processes and cost estimates, for an SF-based construction company and a start-up medical device company.In addition, I took control of a faltering Accounting migration project and brought it back to schedule, and was part of a team helping to solve performance problems at a successful SF-based online retailer.

Recharged my yoga practice with daily asana and in-depth study of ancient philosophical texts, including meditation, pranayama and mantras. Studied with world-class teachers over this extended time, including a 7-day silent retreat in Tahoe,

One of ten-plus architects for a system processing more than one million healthcare related messages per day on databases totalling more than 150TB of data and billions of rows. Architected, designed and contributed to development of several critical initiatives, and acted in an advisory role for several key projects. Involved intimately at each phase of the Agile/Scrum SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) for this SQLServer2008R2/MongoDB/AzureStorage system built mostly on .NET, IIS and C# as fault-tolerant distributed asynchronous systems. Worked with Riverbed TTW and AIX, including extending TTW's capabilities to provide performance-inexpensive message count monitoring. Studied HL7 CCDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture) and FHIR in depth, and worked with Direct Messaging. Developed initial Git strategy and acted as point for check-ins to Git repositories.ASP.NET 4.5WCF 4.0, 4.5.NET 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2IIS 7.5VS 2012, 2013SQL Server 2008R2MongoDBAzure StorageGitTortoise SVNTeamCity (Continuous Integration and Build Mgmt., for developer builds)CruiseControl (Continuous Integration and Build Mgmt., for Production Environments)TopShelf (open source project for easily creating Windows service)MassTransit (open source project for more efficiently working with RabbitMQ)Automatonymous (open source project for state machine management)Quartz Scheduler (open source project for scheduling tasks, my use was specifically for retries)RabbitMQ (open source project for working with persisted queues, easing fault-tolerant distributed asynchronous software development)Asynchronous programmingRiverbed, especially low-level and custom work with TTW, and AIXHL7 CCDA and FHIR, and Direct MessagingSOLID design principlesResponsibilities spanned all environments, from Production to Integration to Stage to Performance to TestMantis (for bug reports and Production/Automation requests)Wiki (for System Requirements and Operational Readiness)Resharper

E-commerce Video platform.Architected, designed and implemented an Azure-based video-streaming and download platform for selling videos created by The Movement Center. The video storage and database were Azure-based with the web site built on IIS 7.5 and MVC 4. Thinktecture's IdentityServer provided the security infrastructure for enabling OAuth 2.0 authentication with Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft accounts, and SAML token-based authorization to programmatically determine user functionality

Architect/design/implement SOA WCF .NET system, from database to fluid UX design, of new Formula-based Pricing Engine for Worker's Compensation insurance policies: .NET 4.0/4.5, C# 4/5, WCF, Silverlight/WPF/MVVM, SQL Server 2008 R2, ASP.NET/MVC, WinForms.Directly involved with designing and then creating new database system for pricing insurance policies. Designed and wrote core stored procedures for pricing that also includes highly granular performance data, measuring the performance of each formula, while having virtually no overhead.In addition, created several user-interfaces: 1) intelli-sense editor and management screens for creating and modifying the complex formulas associated with pricing a policy: Silverlight 5/MVVM2) application for managing the flow of data between the landing zone/development/QA databases for the multitude of data sets associated with pricing a policy, and including support for Actuary Approval/UnApproval: WinForms, ASP.NET/MVC/Web API/Razor, XML, Excel3) application for viewing the full set of data associated with a pricing, as well as the formulas and input values involved in the calculations: Silverlight 5/MVVM4) several other applications for merging data into database from disparate sources, such as SQLServer, Excel and Access.

Invested several months of sweat equity to live broadcast classes and then make these classes available online on-demand.• Creator of SOA .NET 4.0/3.5, C# 4.0/3.0, WCF E-commerce, subscription-based and single purchase web site based on a SQLAzure database accessed over HTTPS by a Silverlight 4 client• Silverlight client provided both Live and On-Demand smooth streaming of CDN-delivered videos, and access to a variety of documents• HTML5, JavaScript and CSS version provided video to iOS clients• Designed and accessed web services using both SOAP and REST architectures• Web site implemented a custom e-commerce solution and a custom document repository to filter content based on user and subscription-level• Served both Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Flash-based media, using either Silverlight or HTML5/AJAX/JavaScript/CSS

Invested many months of sweat equity to create a platform to enable yoga teachers to sell their videos online.• Architected, designed and implemented SOA .NET 4.0/3.5, C# 4.0/3.0, WCF E-commerce web-based business service that provided a cloud-based storage and smooth streaming delivery of monetized video content, and handling of customer secure credit card purchases, involving Class 2 wildcard SSL certificate• Integrated security and encryption• Designed and accessed web services using both SOAP and REST architectures• Serves both Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Flash-based media, using either Silverlight or HTML5/AJAX/JavaScript/CSS• Recruited team to develop Business Plan and market product

A primary developer for a .NET 2.0 WinForm based, Oracle hosted, state-of-the-art smart-client application for Global Product Costing. Designed and implemented key components. Major contributions to simple yet powerful user-interface flows, data structures design, and internal data flow. Applied Lean and Agile methodologies, and worked within the Six Sigma management approach.

After working over 13 years in the software industry, I decided to take some time off and re-charge.

Technical designer/developer: VB-based, Oracle hosted, 'system of record' managing all Wells Fargo Bank outlets; and ASP.NET 1.1 based, Oracle hosted, 'system of record' managing all branch employee authorizations, a 40k user base.Worked directly with Vice President and Business Analyst.Designed and implemented the Horizon Framework to quickly implement basic functionality and new features, and was used to create the code base for all six VB-based releases while at project, as well as many other utility/support programs.Applied Lean and Agile methodologies, allowing a team of five people (I was the sole designer/developer) to accomplish all of the above.

Technical designer/developer for extensions to an existing VB-based, SQLServer hosted, agreement management system. Included creating a robust, database-integrated, document management system of > 100K documents, providing agreement assembly and revision management. Remains a key component of the Dolby agreement management system.Worked directly with Business Analyst.Applied Lean and Agile methodologies, often releasing new features and bug fixes every other day, thus maintaining a high quality and useful system.

Intranet 3-tier ASP-based, Oracle hosted, inventory management system.

Designer/developer: VB-based, Oracle hosted, computer resource management system contracted by the United Parcel Service.Worked directly with Vice President and President.Learned and applied Lean and Agile approaches to software design and implementation.

Designed/developed C++ based mapping software used to track pollutants. Accessed simple text-file databases.

UNIX System Administrator for development of NAVMATE, a route-guidance system for automobiles. Junior programmer in C and C++.See also: http://www.horizonnav.com/history.html